---
name: "Yarrow Cheney"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yarrow-cheney"
fi1m_id: "yarrow-cheney"
imdb_id: "nm0155528"
tmdb_id: 61300
wikidata_id: "Q24951590"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T22:20:54.007704+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Yarrow Cheney

## Identity

Yarrow Cheney

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yarrow-cheney
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yarrow-cheney
- **IMDb ID:** nm0155528
- **TMDB ID:** 61300
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24951590
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_Cheney, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24951590, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155528/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/61300

Production designer. Born 1 January 1966.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1966
- **Active:** 2010–2013
- **Frequently works with:** [Chris Meledandri](https://film.one/person/chris-meledandri.md), [Chris Renaud](https://film.one/person/chris-renaud.md), [Cinco Paul](https://film.one/person/cinco-paul.md), [Janet Healy](https://film.one/person/janet-healy.md), [Ken Daurio](https://film.one/person/ken-daurio.md), [Pierre Coffin](https://film.one/person/pierre-coffin.md), [Steve Carell](https://film.one/person/steve-carell.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_Cheney, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24951590, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155528/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/61300

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Despicable Me*](https://film.one/film/despicable-me.md) (74)
- **Peacock:** [*Despicable Me 2*](https://film.one/film/despicable-me-2.md) (71)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Yarrow Cheney is an American production designer, animator and director. He attended the California Institute of the Arts from 1992 to 1995 and began his career as a character animator on films including *Cats Don't Dance* (1997), *Quest for Camelot* (1998) and *The Iron Giant* (1999).

He worked as production designer on the short *The ChubbChubbs!* (2002) and the feature *Curious George* (2006). At Illumination he served as production designer on *Despicable Me* (2010), *The Lorax* (2012) and *Despicable Me 2* (2013). He later co-directed *The Secret Life of Pets* (2016) with Chris Renaud and directed *The Grinch* (2018) with Scott Mosier.

Cheney received Annie Award nominations for production design on *Despicable Me* and character design on *The Lorax*, and shared a Primetime Emmy Award for main title design on the series *Dilbert* (1999) with his wife, Carrie Cheney.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, web.archive.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Despicable Me 2* (2013), Fi1m 71, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/despicable-me-2.md)
- *Despicable Me* (2010), Fi1m 74, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/despicable-me.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Minions & More Volume 1* (2022), Director, Writer
- *Illumination Presents: 10 Minion Mini-Movies* (2019), Director
- *The Grinch* (2018), Director, Character Designer
- *The Secret Life of Pets* (2016), Co-Director
- *Despicable Me 2: 3 Mini-Movie Collection* (2014), Director
- *Puppy* (2013), Director, Writer
- *Despicable Me 2* (2013), Production Design — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/despicable-me-2.md)
- *The Lorax* (2012), Production Design, Character Designer
- *Despicable Me* (2010), Production Design — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/despicable-me.md)
- *The Very First Noel* (2006), Director, Production Design, Producer
- *Curious George* (2006), Production Design
- *The ChubbChubbs!* (2002), Production Design
- *The Iron Giant* (1999), CG Animator — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-iron-giant.md)
- *Quest for Camelot* (1998), Animation
- *Cats Don't Dance* (1997), Animation
- *Superworld*, Novel

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